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The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation is the 501(c)(3) charitable affiliate of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. It was incorporated in 1984 with the purpose of assisting the association to be involved with public service.
The Pennsylvania Mock Trial Competition is a high school Mock Trial competition in Pennsylvania sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. The winning school of the state finals advances to the National High School Mock Trial Championship.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Pennsylvania.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Ralph Stanton Wettick Jr. is a retired United States judge who served on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania's Fifth Judicial District, [1] from 1976 to 2016.
Cynthia Baldwin received both her bachelor's degree (in English) and her master's degree (in American literature) from Penn State. [3] After working as a teacher, English professor and assistant dean of student affairs at Penn State's Greater Allegheny Campus, she subsequently earned her juris doctor degree from Duquesne University School of Law. [4]
Anne E. Lazarus (born November 12, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who currently serves as the President Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.A member of the Democratic Party, Lazarus was elected to the Superior Court on November 3, 2009. [1]
Russell M. Nigro (born March 23, 1946) is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.He first ran on the Democratic ticket in 1995. He ran for retention in 2005 but lost, thus making him the first Supreme Court Justice to lose a retention vote since such elections were first held in 1968.
After graduating from Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Zappala began his undergraduate studies at the University of Delaware, where he played linebacker.After a back injury sidelined him, he transferred to the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated with a degree in political science.